We have only just received the official press release on today’s first business session of the new sixteen member compromise cabinet, but reports from Belmopan are that most of the morning session was taken up by a presentation from the general manager of the Social Security Board, Narda Garcia. Unless there are some secret transactions […]
Thanks to a joint effort by the community and police of Benque Viejo Del Carmen, authorities have arrested two young men they suspect were the culprits who held up the Clarissa Falls Resort. According to police, around eleven on Friday night the manager of the resort, which lies along the Mopan River between Benque and […]
It was one of those news items that fell through the cracks in the midst of last week’s political turmoil…but viewers should be happy to hear that there is no longer a shortage of Belize passports. A release from the Immigration Department confirms that the first shipment of new passports has been received from the […]
The official list of activities for this year’s September celebrations is yet to be released, but there are a couple of events you might want to pencil into your entertainment calendar for next month. Organisers are putting the final touches on their plans for the third annual Belize Sound Fest and this year there is […]
He is Belize’s most celebrated classical musician, a world class pianist who, between the Belizean classics “Mass in Blues” and “Celebrations”, compiled an impressive list of achievements in England, the Soviet Union and United States. Now, Francis Reneau is back in town, this time to help the next generation of Belizean artists. Patrick Jones reports. […]
If the Athens Olympics just don’t seem to cut it for Belizeans the way the Sydney games did four years ago, the reason is not difficult to find. It’s Marion Jones–or rather the lack of Marion Jones. Sure, she’ll compete Friday in the long jump–and hopefully win–as well as run a leg in the four-by-one […]
